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International power brokers receive low marks in screen test

Andrew Miller

June 9 2015, 1:01am, The Times

The makers of a film about the dysfunctional governance of world cricket, which premiered at a documentary festival in Sheffield yesterday, hope that the culmination of their four-year journey will mark the start of a concerted bid to rescue their beloved game from what they believe is “the biggest scandal in sport”.

Sam Collins and Jarrod Kimber, two cricket fans turned journalists, set out in the winter of 2011 to document what they perceived to be the impending death of Test cricket, amid the explosion of interest in the Twenty20 format and the apparent ambivalence of India, the sport’s most important market, towards the traditional five-day game.

Instead, the 96-minute film screened at Sheffield Doc/Fest, Death of a Gentleman, documents their journey from Lord’s to…